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ARTICLES
Digitising “The Big Lie”: Algorithmic Curation as an Inhibitor of Media Exposure Diversity Online
Abstract While multiple scholarly disciplines have scrutinised algorithms and their social power, this article examines algorithmic...
Risks of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)-assisted scams on online sharing-economy platforms
Abstract The prevalence of scams proliferating via online platforms has been identified as an emerging societal problem resulting in...
Media freedom threats in South Africa today: toward a research and advocacy response
Abstract This article assesses the multiple factors which are barriers to media freedom in South Africa. These include crises of...
Decolonizing education and research by countering the myths we live by
Countermythologization and Collective Action. This essay argues for a revision of both research and teaching practice within the fields...
Political myth-making in media policy: the case of the African National Congress versus the Press Council of South Africa
Abstract This article introduces semiotic myth theory as a methodology for the analysis of both political narratives and media policy...
Counter mythologising “media freedom”: including the audience in media freedom discourses and a new normative position for the Global South
Abstract This article argues for a conscious counter-mythologisation of the popularly utilised term “media freedom” within media...
The audience-centred approach to media policymaking: a critical analysis of the South African Press Freedom Commission as a participatory process of review
Abstract This article presents and makes a case for the audience-centred approach to media policymaking and research, and situates this...
Third party complaints in the system of press regulation: inviting the reader to take part in journalistic accountability and securing press freedom
Abstract The system of self-regulation for the press was subject to contentious debates in South Africa from 2010 to 2012. The Press...
Toward a measurement tool for the monitoring of media diversity and pluralism in South Africa: an audience centered approach
Abstract This article responds to recent debates within South African media politics regarding the diversity and transformation of the...
The remythologisation of white collective identities in post apartheid South African history film by myth and counter myth
Abstract Since 1994 a collection of films, referred to here as post-apartheid South African history film, has thematically represented...
Mythological representation in popular culture today
Abstract Mythologies that reside and operate within popular culture representations and the mass communications media reveal valuable...
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